Thanks Tom Tried your code to show the offending line but nothing appears. Then tried a clean weewx.conf from the install folder but still the same error message. Then tried a full reinstall, but still the same error. Then tried it with the the default database using simulator and still the same error - so you are right it is not my database. What next?
On Wednesday, August 19, 2020 at 2:51:31 PM UTC+2, Tom Keffer wrote: > > The decode error is actually in your configuration file, weewx.conf, and > not in the database. > > Somehow, your copy of weewx.conf got corrupted. One of the lines has a > character sequence that starts out as a utf-8 encoding, but the following > byte is not what was expected. > > Unfortunately, the error does not tell you which line the bad character > sequence is in, only that it is in byte position 26 of that line. Perhaps > this will help (NOT TESTED): > > *od -x -A d weewx.conf | grep e0* > > This should print out the line and offending sequence. > > -tk > > > > On Wed, Aug 19, 2020 at 5:25 AM David Marshall <[email protected] > <javascript:>> wrote: > >> Hi >> >> Installed a fresh version of weewx 4.1.1 without problem using setup.py >> on a raspberry. >> >> Transferred my existing sqlite database from weewx 3.9.1. It is big, >> about 3 years of data. This worked fine. >> >> But when I tried to use reconfigure I got the following error >> >> pi@raspberrypi:~ $ /home/weewx/bin/wee_database --reconfigure >> /home/weewx/archive/weewx.sdb >> Traceback (most recent call last): >> File "/home/weewx/bin/wee_database", line 974, in <module> >> main() >> File "/home/weewx/bin/wee_database", line 128, in main >> config_path, config_dict = weecfg.read_config(options.config_path, >> args) >> File "/home/weewx/bin/weecfg/__init__.py", line 179, in read_config >> default_encoding='utf-8') >> File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/configobj.py", line 1229, in >> __init__ >> self._load(infile, configspec) >> File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/configobj.py", line 1287, in _load >> content = self._handle_bom(content) >> File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/configobj.py", line 1437, in >> _handle_bom >> return self._decode(infile, self.encoding) >> File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/configobj.py", line 1517, in >> _decode >> infile[i] = line.decode(encoding) >> UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0xe0 in position 26: >> invalid continuation byte >> >> Anyone know how to fix this? >> >> >> >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "weewx-user" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected] <javascript:>. >> To view this discussion on the web visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/weewx-user/97c28bf4-30c7-455c-851f-469187c31c79o%40googlegroups.com >> >> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/weewx-user/97c28bf4-30c7-455c-851f-469187c31c79o%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >> . >> > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "weewx-user" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/weewx-user/93094213-6958-49a1-ba13-7f3ca3a90274o%40googlegroups.com.
